Rand's Grand Plan

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http://www.politico.com/story/2014/1...#ixzz3IfryQh8R

Rand's Grand Plan

Senator Rand Paul

Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul has made key decisions about how to launch his presidential campaign for the 2016 Republican nomination, including a plan to headquarter his effort in Louisville and opting to run for re-election to the Senate at the same time he moves forward with the national race.

Coming off a midterm campaign blitz in 35 states, Paul has summoned a few dozen advisers – a mix of veterans of his father Ron Paul’s insurgent campaigns and more mainstream GOP leaders — for a closed-door summit at a Washington hotel on Wednesday to discuss his future plans.

In a POLITICO interview, the 51-year-old senator talked unblinkingly about the possibility of a run, and sought to draw a sharp contrast between himself and Hillary Clinton — none too subtly raising the issue of her age. At 67, she is 16 years older than he is.

“I think all the polls show if she does run, she’ll win the Democrat nomination,” he said. “But I don’t think it’s for certain. It’s a very taxing undertaking to go through. It’s a rigorous physical ordeal, I think, to be able to campaign for the presidency.”

Paul, who will face a much more crowded field on the Republican side but starts out as a slight front-runner in public polls, has begun an aggressive early campaign against Clinton. In the interview, he argued that her hawkish position inside the Obama administration for military intervention in places such as Libya will stack up unfavorably against his views.

“Her main Achilles’ heel is that she didn’t provide an adequate defense for our consulate in Libya,” Paul said during a trip to Georgia just before the midterms. “And also, she didn’t think through the unintended consequences of getting involved in the Libyan war. So I think you’d have an interesting dynamic, were there a [Republican] nominee that was for less intervention overseas and in the Middle East and that’s fiscally conservative. You’ve never seen that kind of combination before, and I think there’s a lot of independent voters, actually, that might be attracted to that kind of message.”

Paul reiterated his long-standing assertion that he won’t officially decide about a presidential run until the spring, but his advisers have already laid out a timetable: They expect the campaign will be a “go” by mid-April, with an announcement as quickly after that as his staff can put together a fly-around to the early states.

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Much more mainstream than his father, a better speaker and much more prepared. As well as actually leading in key states and leading the entire GOP field too.

Paul vs Clinton would be one hell of an election, and it all starts next year.

Thoughts?

[scottish]

Hillary Clinton will win.

First it was a black president, next it'll be a female.

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Hillary Clinton will win.

First it was a black president, next it'll be a female.

They said that in 2008 that she would win too.

[FlyingJesus]

Being a better speaker and more prepared than his dad isn't much of an achievement lmao, does sound like he's got his plan together though so could be an interesting one. Not convinced that Clinton that would get as much of a "voting them because they're a [supposed] minority" vote as Obama did considering she's already well-known and not particularly popular even among Democrat voters after nonsense speeches like saying that wives are the primary victims of war because they lose their husbands... if it comes to America voting a female pres just for being female I think it'll be a younger one who rises quickly without much of a political history to be used against her.

Would be nice to see a presidential election based on policy and ideals rather than who's the most hip but that's America for you